Remember
Twin suns scar the earth
Trading lives
For war’s end
Captured by a Times Square Kiss
Babies bloom like flowers

Gifts of peace
Cherry Blossoms bloom
Beautiful
With short lives
Vanishing too fast too soon
Without war’s cold breeze
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/ copyright Sean Vessey 2011.
Thank you to the Greatest Generation
including three of my Uncles who would have been in Operation Oylmpic, the invasion of Japan. Thank you to President Truman who took seriously his motto “The Buck stops here.
Kiss a Service Person Thank You.